YOU’RE DOING THAT WRONG…
Tales From the Hoodoo Trenches is my attempt to save some of you, out there, from learning some hard lessons and to assist you in getting things right the first time. I shall pause for a moment, here, as I review the old saying, “Never give advice because the wise don’t need…
HELP REVEALING THE HIDDEN AND DISCOVERING THE TRUTH
The Bible contains scripture applicable to nearly every life situation. Indeed, for believers, it is a guidebook, for some, it is a grimoire, others a book of parables, and yet others, it’s a complete work of fiction. I won’t debate the veracity or importance of what is contained…
SO, YOU WANNA MEET ‘THE BLACK MAN,’ EH?
Even if someone doesn’t practice any kind of path or tradition, chances are that they will still be familiar with the folk tale of the Blues musician, Robert Johnson, selling his soul at the crossroads. Many people believe that this is quite literally what happens – you give…
MAKE IT MEANINGFUL
I have many plants in my garden that I use for workings, in my products, and for cooking. I have a little ritual I observe when harvesting. I will gather the above ground parts of a plant when the moon is waxing to full. Alternately, I will gather the below ground parts when…
THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT WAS
The only time you “show your work” is in Math class. Also, if somebody is paying you to do work for them, then you show them that for which they are paying. But outside of those instances, you keep what you are doing to yourself. Why? Because they can’t influence…
A QUESTION WAS POSTED THE OTHER DAY
The question was simple: “What does it mean to perform protection in layers?”
“Layering” means have several works of protection going at once. Let me use myself as an example: I work with my Ancestors and ask for their protection. I have railroad spikes at the corners of my property,…
A COUPLE OF QUICKIES
As it seems is sometimes the case, I will come away from a meeting or being in public somewhere and I will start to feel ill and drained for no reason. It will feel as though I have picked up something or someone in the process of being out and about. Obviously,…
HERE’S MY TAKE ON THIS WORK THAT SEEMS TO BE SO SOUGHT AFTER
When I was coming up, it wasn’t uncommon to say that a person who wasn’t thinking straight, or was acting like they were in a fog, were “walking around like their head is full of cotton.” Meaning, essentially, that they’re acting like they’re…
USE A BOTTLE OF WAR WATER TO REVERSE WORKS OF NEGATIVITY
The Southwest has its own kind of beauty and its own kind of conveniences. Something we have an abundance of here is heat. I like to use this and our other natural resources in my workings whenever the opportunity presents itself, like in this next…
MOTHER OF THOUSANDS
When I was a kid, a friend of the family who knew I loved plants gave me a Kalanchoe. It was the neatest thing to me because I had never seen anything like it. She explained that each one of the babies, along each one of the leaves, would drop off and a whole…